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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
J. G. Holland
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
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Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.
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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
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Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
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